Word: zinging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chop, chop. Thwack. Zing. Chonk...
...week. Chanel showed suits, Grès had a tent-shaped evening gown, St. Laurent showed exaggerated sailor suits and transparent organza dresses. But after Rome, it all seemed flat until Barbra Streisand, Broadway's freewheeling funny girl, showed up on her first trip abroad to add some zing and zest to the proceedings...
...this remake, MGM cooks the goose that laid the golden egg. Rarely have so many charmless performers been assembled. Zing, freshness, warmth, humor and yay-team vitality have been banished-presumably to please a new generation that will never know what it missed. The Garland-Rooney roles are taken over by Singers Connie Francis and Harve Presnell, who mope through the vintage show tunes as though they have memorized the words and music while disowning the message. Instead of getting-the-gang-together-to-put-on-a-dandy-show, they are paying off a gambling debt for Connie...
BARBRA STREISAND: MY NAME IS BARBRA, TWO (Columbia). Whether clowning her way through a medley of down-and-out songs (Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?; I Got Plenty of Nothin') or recalling the wondrous first moment of love (He Touched Me), the Streisand zing for living is still the most zestful around. She polishes off a couple of lesser-known Rodgers and Hart tunes and, best of all, a ricky-tick rendition of the Fanny Brice favorite, Second Hand Rose...
...Douglas were 15 years younger, he would indeed be all but unbeatable. But with age, he has lost some of his zing. Half in jest, Percy remarked: "One thing that bothers me about this is that it's my friends who keep telling me I shouldn't run, and my enemies who tell me I should...